On July 12, 2025, a fire tore through the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. It consumed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge, multiple staff residences, the visitor center, and even the water treatment plant. As a passionate hiker who has hiked rim...

Every year on July 14, we celebrate World Chimpanzee Day, a date that commemorates the day in 1960 when Dr. Jane Goodall first stepped into the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania and began her groundbreaking research on wild chimpanzees. Her work...

Each year on June 29, communities across Europe gather to honor one of the continent’s most vital natural corridors: the Danube. Celebrated as Danube Day, this date commemorates the 1994 signing of the Danube River Protection Convention, a moment that...

On June 25, 2025, NASA leadership convened an agency-wide town hall to address the fallout from the proposed FY2026 budget. The atmosphere was tense. With a nearly 50% cut to the agency’s science division, the message was clear: missions will be canceled,...